Profile of iTzDusty

Fact is, game needs to be balanced for people who know how to play it reasonably well, that is a lot more then the top 200 and it definitely does not just include AT. I agree the stats are skewed but in 3v3 and 4v4 there is an inbalance and it does effect people who are good enough to legitimately complain about it.

This is where I think my point is a little misunderstood.

The game should definitely have balance changes that benefit people that reasonably understand game mechanics, which can be even the top 3000. The problem is that a lot of players that might be in that top 3000 may play a single faction and have a bad reaction to changes affecting that faction (Anything from the KT nerf to the B4 nerf ). They might knee jerk to many changes (again, the B4 nerf) which, while it was obviously overdue, definitely affectTed the majority of allied top 500-3000 players since that was a huge crutch they relied on.

The problem with CoH2s balance is the historically slow patch rate that let's OP things be OP for a while. At least in CS, when things like the AUG got stupid OP and people abused it to climb ranks, there wasn't any complaints because it was fixed in days, and "CT only" players, if that ever existed in CS, didn't have time for that to become the norm.

Basically, as long as people continue to play one faction/side more or less exclusively, any balance changes are going to piss them off, and in the top 500-3000 these players exist in fairly decent numbers. The game needs to be balanced to players that play all factions fairly equally, as only then are they players that reasonably understand the game mechanics.

I've done vs vs USF once and vs Sov T2 opening twice, and tbh my Ostheer rank is quite low. M3s would slice into this strat now that you mention it. Only thing I can think of is mines and sprinting away.

A really well placed teller can turn this strat into a super high risk high reward opening that can win you the game in less than ten minutes, even at a high level, so there's definitely merit to that. Sprint too can mitigate the m3 by closing distance and shredding the m3 at point-blank. Though the mine is really central to the whole strat, and I would not base an opening around the chance that you may bait an opponent onto the mine. My two cents.

Against USF it actually isn't a horrible idea, but for asgrens at least it would require a map that has lots of LOS blockers to let you ambush rifles. The fast 222 can definitely counter the LG rush, though this patch the captain is seeing much much more use. I'M if you were to attempt this strat it would be only against USF on a favorable map. At the end of the day, MGS and LMG grens are ostheers backbone, and pgrens wouldn't be able to fill the gap since they kill yor manpower.

It has marginal use in 2s cause of the radio I tercept, but it is an extremely top heavy commander that really only shines in 4s because of the previously mentioned heavy cap.

Fast m3s can exploit this really really badly as the ostruppen won't get fausts without t1, and ass grens can be kited. IMO t2 rush like this can only work in 2v2 and up with a teammate compensating for your early lack of any AT/AV

It probably was, but at that point I was so fed up that I stopped playing for like a week. I have had outbursts like that(though none as bad as the one against brad, I was especially cross with him because he was actually responsible for the bad balance) a few times now but they don't come out of the blue. When you face the same broken stuff over, and over, and over again, frustration builds. I don't BM every (pre patch) rifle flamer spammer, Mech assault abuser or guard motor spammer I face. But when I face them 15 times in a row, one unlucky sod is probably going to receive my bottled up frustration. One time it was brad, one time it was you. I have a strong passion for this game and strong opinions of how it should be balanced. I won't excuse myself for that.

Fair enough, though I would just like to point out that AFAIK, Brad wasn't responsible for the balance of the kubel or anything that people got upset about, this is back when Peter did and was responsible for a lot of very very terrible changes to the game.